CAPTAIN MINGAYE.—We mentioned last week, a case in which am
inquest jury were said to have found that a man died of the conse-
quences of flogging. The following is given in the Morning Papers as- a copy of the finding in question. We should have liked it better had the Jury stuck to the facts before them. At present it looks very like a manufactured verdict. What had they to do with Captain Mingaye's previous character ? Like all foolish panegyrists, they bring the gallant officer into suspicion by their awkward praise. Did they think that it was a recommendation to say Captain Mingaye was careful in his punish- ments ? If they could have said that he maintained the discipline of his vessel without punishment, the character would have been worth pos- sessing. " That the deceased, W. 'Welch, was, on the 15th of June, punished, according to the Articles of War, on board the Hyperion, for drunkenness, quitting his quarters without leave, and seizing arms with the intent to murder his Quartermaster, by receiving forty-eight lashes with a cat-o'-nine-tails on his bare back ; in consequence of which pu- nishment, owing to a bad habit of body, a certain inflammatory disease, called erysipelas, attacked the said William Welch, of which he lan- guished six days, and then died ; and that the punishment was neither improperly nor negligently inflicted, but as humanely and carefully as the nature of the circumstances would admit of; and the jurors are of opinion that great praise is due to Captaiu Mingaye for the care taken by him previously to and during the infliction of punishments, and parti- cularly for the humane precautions adopted by him to prevent any con- sequences ultimately injurious to the party punished."
Mierranr EXECUTION.—A soldier of the 94th Regiment was shot at Gibraltar on the 9th of June, in presence of all the garrison, for firing a loaded musket at his officer, with intent to murder him. The martial ceremonies on the occasion of this execution were conducted with great solemnity, and were very imposing. The criminal met his fate with becoming fortitude, and fully acknowledged his guilty intentions, and the justice of his sentence.
BOLD Tam: Ir.—The lower part of the residence of Mr. Adolphus, the barrister, in Bedford Square, was entered by thieves, on Wednesday afternoon, and robbed of a service of plate, which was arranged on a tray, ready to be served up at dinner. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.—Two constables rode to Fairlop fair on Sunday last, to look after a band of horse-stealers that have been un- commonly busy in Essex for some time past. They gave their horses to a boy, while they perambulated the fair ; but on returning, discovered, to their great amazement, that the object of their search was not so dis- tant as they had imagined. The steeds were gone—carried off by the very men they were looking after. NICE D/STINCTIONS:?,-A fellowavas tried at the London Sessions on Wednesday, for an assault On.san officer, while he was employed in securing a desperate offender named Browne. The assault charge con.
sisted in shoving the crowd against the officer. The shoving was sc. companied by violent language. The court held that an assault was an assault, whatever was the instrument ; but the jury demurred to this doctrine, and acquitted the prisoner. It would appear to follow from this, that if a ruffian see fit to use a boy or a girl to commit murder with, instead of a bludgeon, he cannot be convicted. If he kill the man, it is no assault to knock a child against a man : if he kill the child, it is no assault to knock a man against a child.
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